What is the structure of trigger event when creating interaction via REST API call?

Question

Trying to create interactions for Salesforce Marketing Cloud Journey Builder via the REST API which can later be triggered using a REST API /interactions/v1/events call.

My current attempt is as follows:

{
    "key": "TestInteractionSansKey",
    "name": "New interaction without trigger event",
    "version": 1,
    "workflowApiVersion": 1.0,

    "triggers": [ {
        "eventDefinitionKey": "MyTestEventKey",
        "data": [{
            "key": "MyDataKey",
            "name": "Data key",
            "items": [{
                "values": [{
                    "name": "contactKey",
                    "value": "test"
                }]
            }]
        }]
    }]
}

If I pull out the 'triggers' field, everything works as intended, but I need the interaction to have a trigger that I can invoke later. So what should this 'triggers' field look like? What fields do the objects need? The error messages have not been much help.

Answer 1

OK, here's what's working for me:

POST https://www.exacttargetapis.com/interaction/v1/eventDefinitions
{
  "type": "ContactEvent",
  "name": "APICreatedTrigger",
  "description": "Created in API!",
  "mode": "Production",
  "eventDefinitionKey": "APICreatedTrigger-ff6b8011-28b1-469d-bda6-9ea78477401a",
  "dataExtensionId": "2ecfeaa9-9868-437e-b36c-fb22fc485067",
  "iconUrl": "/events/images/icon_journeyBuilder-event-document-blue.svg",
  "arguments": {
    "serializedObjectType": 2,
    "criteria": "<FilterDefinition><ConditionSet Operator=\"AND\" ConditionSetName=\"Individual Filter Grouping\"></ConditionSet></FilterDefinition>",
    "eventDefinitionId": "d7341325-bac7-49de-beb2-7f7e66e7806d",
    "eventDefinitionKey": "APICreatedTrigger-ff6b8011-28b1-469d-bda6-9ea78477401a",
    "dataExtensionId": "2ecfeaa9-9868-437e-b36c-fb22fc485067"
  },
  "metaData": {
    "criteriaDescription": "",
    "scheduleState": "No Schedule"
  },
  "interactionCount": 2,
  "isVisibleInPicker": false,
  "category": "Event"
}

---

POST https://www.exacttargetapis.com/interaction/v1/interactions
{
    "key": "abc5-fsdichu23r",
    "version": 1,
    "name": "ABC5",
    "description": "ABC5",
    "workflowApiVersion": 1.0,
    "triggers": [
        {
            "key": "abc5-trigger",
            "name": "Starting point for the interaction",
            "type": "Event",
            "eventDefinitionKey": "APICreatedTrigger-ff6b8011-28b1-469d-bda6-9ea78477401a",
            "arguments": {"filterResult": "{{Contact.FilterId.8a82a8dd-ea86-4d1a-968a-201ed2113172}}"},
            "configurationArguments": {
            "schemaVersionId": 4,
        "criteria": "<FilterDefinition><ConditionSet Operator=\"AND\" ConditionSetName=\"Individual Filter Grouping\"></ConditionSet></FilterDefinition>",
        "filterDefinitionId": "8a82a8dd-ea86-4d1a-968a-201ed2113172"
        },
            "metaData": {
                "eventDefinitionId": "d7341325-bac7-49de-beb2-7f7e66e7806d",
                "eventDefinitionKey": "APICreatedTrigger-ff6b8011-28b1-469d-bda6-9ea78477401a",
                "chainType": "None"
            }
        }
    ]
}